HISTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA CIF-SS Office - 1945 INTERSCHOLASTIC FEDERATION Oneonta School

CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION South Pasadena 98th historical “tidbit.” Dr. John S. Dahlem

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREP SCHOOL HALL OF FAME 1942

The CIF-SS created their first athlete Hall of Fame in 1942. It was called the Helms Athletic Foundation Southern California Prep School Hall of Fame. The initial Hall of Fame was often referred to as the Silverwood Prep Hall of Fame because it was originally housed in the Silverwood Department Store at 6th & Broadway in downtown . The first athletes named to the Hall of Fame were those high school stars who were named Helms All-CIF Players of the Year in football, basketball, and track & field. The name of these athletes appeared on the Paul H. Helms trophy now housed in the CIF-SS archives.

Helms Southern California High Schools Athletic Hall of Fame Note Trophy on the right hand side of the photo

In 1945, Silverwood Department Store needed the space for development and the Hall of Fame was moved to the Oneonta School in South Pasadena which housed the CIF-SS office (the office had previously been in the Administration Building at South Pasadena High School, but moved to Oneonta due to earthquake structure problems at the high school.) When the office moved to the Helms facility it was given an area on the second floor and called the Southern California High Schools Athletic Hall of Fame. Through the numerous CIF-SS office moves over the years all that is left of the Hall of Fame is the Helms Trophy.

Silverwood's was founded in 1894 by Francis Bernard ("Daddy") Silverwood, Los Angeles clothier, merchant, and businessman, originally from Canada, near Lindsay, Ontario. The first store was located at 124 South Spring St. in Los Angeles, and soon moved to larger quarters at 221 South Spring St. The flagship store was established in 1904 at Sixth & Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. Hall of Fame on the 4th floor

From the September, 1945, CIF-SS “Monthly Bulletin”…

Frank Alpert

The CIF-SS felt strongly that those great high school athletes prior to the formation of the Prep School Hall of Fame (1945) should also be included in the Hall of Fame. Ten of these athletes would later be named among the top 100 Athletes of the first 100 years of CIF-SS…Albert, Davis, Drury, Houser, Cornelius Johnson, , Kramer, Paddock, Wykoff and Zamperini. (It is interesting to note that the following athletes who made the greatest athletes in the history of the CIF-SS list prior to 1945 were not on this November, 1945 list: Lillian Copeland, Ralph Kiner, , Bobby Riggs, , , Earl Thomson, Arky Vaughn and )

Glenn Davis Morley Drury

Cornelius Johnson Walter Johnson Jack Kramer

Charles Paddock Louis Zamperini